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gubicle··on ManusAI Joins Meta
Consider the possibility that the people who make these decisions aren't actually all that smart and are easily manipulated by marketing and the sycophants/impostors they surround themselves with.
gubicle··on Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army
> You could only save somebody time if they skipped the content and started doing comments on HN anyhow

as is customary

gubicle··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
My calculations tell me that would be a yellow flag.
gubicle··on The Accountability Problem
The (relatively big and successful) tech company I work at, has gradually seen ~all high level decision-making positions filled with PMs, while senior engineers who have been at the company for years are being pushed out and/or leaving. Most of these PMs have very little understanding of the tech, the market, or how software engineering works, yet they now make ~all of the product decisions at the company. I haven't worked on anything remotely useful, or bottom-line impactful in 2 years. I was originally very optimistic about the company and elected to get paid in as much stock (vs cash) as possible... which I now realize was a big mistake.
gubicle··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
they'd get it before it gets to china
gubicle··on Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI
What does 'interface it with the UI' mean though? How does adding buttons make it easier for the user to work with the AI? The whole point is that users can control it using the most natural and ubiquitous way possible - through natural language.

Yeah, it often makes sense to adjust the user's prompt, add system/wrapper prompts, etc. But that's not really related to UI..

gubicle··on Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI
The whole point is the prompt (+ a static set of (system)prompts). If your whole function as a human is clicking one of a set of buttons to trigger an AI action, then you are automate-able in a few lines of code (and the AI is better than you at deciding which button to click anyway (supposedly)).

There are like thousands wrappers around LLMs masquerading as AI apps for specialized usecases, but the real performance of these apps is really only bottlenecked by the LLM performance, and their UIs generally only get in the way of the direct LLM access/feedback loop.

To work with LLMs effectively you need to understand how to craft good prompts, and how to read/debug the responses.

gubicle··on Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)
> I still like the Canadian approach that to have a title with the word Engineer in it you have to be licensed by the engineering regulator for the province you work in.

That's just not true.

(Despite what Engineers Canada and related parasites tell you.)

gubicle··on It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it
Steam on (arch)linux works so well these days, I haven't needed windows for gaming in a while.
gubicle··on Testing is better than data structures and algorithms
same thing
gubicle··on GPT-5: It just does stuff
How many of these 'this new LLM version is super amazing' stories are paid for?
gubicle··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
Which acts are you referring to? Care to elaborate?
gubicle··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
> My suspicion is that 3ish% is the optimal value or a very large anti-trust investigation (not a price cap) is in order.

Why do you have this particular suspicion when you claim you haven't actually looked into ~any of the questions you raised?

gubicle··on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
That doesn't look right... if you look at the actual commits, they are all from

MiguelsPizza / Alex Nahas

https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP/commits/main/